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Correspondence
and works by T. E. Lawrence

Letters and works shown in red
have been published and are now out of copyright. Click on the
reference to see the published text.

Letters and works shown in green
are also out of copyright and will be added.

Letters and works shown in
brown have been published in the printed edition indicated, but
are covered by copyright until the date shown in italics. Until
then they cannot be included here.

Works

The Arab Bulletin, secret publication circulated by the
Arab Bureau, Cairo, 1916-19. Lawrence's identified contributions
are listed (with notes on reprints) under their dates in the contents
lists for 1915-16, 1917-18 and 1919-20.

T. E. Lawrence chronology

1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British
Museum's excavations at Carchemish

1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo

1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt

1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference

1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office

1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF

1923 January: discharged from the RAF

1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps

1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant

1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah

1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven
Pillars, published

1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey

1929-33: stationed at Plymouth

1931: started working on RAF boats

1932: his translation of the Odyssey published

1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe

1935 February: retired from the RAF

1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May

1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset

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